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Rethinking slave rebellion in Cuba : La Escalera and the insurgencies of 1841-1844 / Aisha K. Finch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finch, Aisha K., author.
- Series:
- Envisioning Cuba
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race relations.
- History.
- Africans.
- Black people.
- Social conditions.
- Slavery.
- Slave rebellions.
- Cuba--History--Negro Conspiracy, 1844.
- Cuba.
- Slave rebellions--Cuba--History--19th century.
- Slavery--Cuba--History--19th century.
- Black people--Cuba--Social conditions--19th century.
- Africans--Cuba--History--19th century.
- Cuba--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Black people--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Other Title:
- La Escalera and the insurgencies of 1841-1844
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Envisioning La Escalera - an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms and plantations in rural western Cuba - in the larger context of the long emancipation struggle in Cuba, Aisha Finch demonstrates how organised slave resistance became critical to the unraveling not only of slavery but also of colonial systems of power during the nineteenth century.
- Contents:
- Africans in colonial Cuba
- Rural slave networks and insurgent geographies
- The 1843 rebellions in Matanzas
- To raise a rebellion in Matanzas: the urban connection, 1841-1843
- And the women also knew: the gendered terrain of insurgency
- The anatomy of a rural movement
- African Cuban sacred traditions and the making of an insurgency.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-287) and index.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Finch, Aisha K. Rethinking slave rebellion in Cuba.
- ISBN:
- 146962236X
- 9781469622354
- 1469622351
- 9781469622361
- OCLC:
- 913829086
- Publisher Number:
- 10.5149/9781469622354_finch
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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